At the age of 15, she began living on her own in a hotel, which she says helped foster very early on a complete sense of independence and autonomy.

After the libaration she returned to Paris and began her professional artistic training at the end of the 1940s, taking courses in sculptural arts.

[1] Starting 1947 she attended the classes of the cubist painter André Lhote, and in 1949 she was the first student of the American-born artist Henri Goetz.

The corpus of her work thus spans mediums, including drawings, collages and three-dimensional pieces, and falls into the category of postwar abstraction.

» ("I undertake a long voyage on a sheet of paper, I envelop myself in the journey; it's no longer a surface, but an adventure in time.